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Ko Phangan = buckets of…(0)

August 27, 2010

It’s difficult to describe Ko Phangan. It’s the sort of place that after 3 days you can’t get far enough away from and yet looking back you’ll realize how much fun you had. At least of those memories that can be recalled.
Let’s be completely frank, the full moon party has nothing to do with the [...]

Ko Phangan = buckets of…

At last: Beating Cobra Heart and Fresh Blood

The dried cobra heart we had in Bangkok was a great jumping off point. While we were a bit disappointed not to have a fresh one,  it left us wanting more. Our first sample was blended well in a whisky cocktail, and the feeling of drinking it can only be described as some sort of [...]

“Same same but different”- Cambodia, a country of contrast

“Same same but different”- Cambodia, a country of contrast

We’d told Cristina, a friend of a friend living in Cambodia, that we’d be in Siem Reap around 1. After a 4 hour bus ride behind a pair of obnoxiously hungover Irish natives, 5 deliriously long and hot queues at the border, a taxi, a rickshaw (aka tuk tuk) and me dangerously close to ripping [...]

Cobra heart – thank you mam, may I have another…

We were on a mission, find the Klong Toey market and locate live cobra, for beating heart and blood cocktail. We’d asked a tuk tuk driver early in the afternoon of our first full day in Bangkok where one could obtain said cocktail. He laughed, pulled over another driver and discussed. He put us on [...]


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